Somehow my brain never put simony and indulgences in the same box. :) Thanks.

54, American here. Yeah, I think we peaked in the 80s and 90s after a small setback in the 70s. Through 2010 was pretty good as well except for 9/11 fucking up our politics and legislation.

Also, add this:

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/20014496

I meant to say your first part there and forgot. :) So, THREE reasons the times were called thus.

People always downvote that person just for the thorns. I dunno. I can read, it takes one sentence for my brain to compensate and roll with it. I think it’s kinda neat as well.

Everything is cyclical. Funny reading people on here acting like it’s the end of the world. No, they just haven’t lived through the end of a cycle. Gotta admit, the West had a hella run since WWII.

Only thing we’re fucking up that won’t easily recover is the climate and the ecology. (Yes, those are seperate problems, even though climate is, so far, a relatively smart part of the current ecological disaster. The BIG chunk of that is human activities.)

“Dark Ages” comes from Renaissance and Enlightenment scholars saying, “Thank God we’re so smart. Those people were morons.”

Also, it was after Rome really fell apart, darker times then the Empire certainly.

I think that’s only if you’re using their unifying dongle. They dropped that tech I think, not sure they replaced it.

My current Logitech mouse never bugs me, only using a generic driver.

Probably the unifying software (runs multiple peripherals on one dongle) or the solar app (kinda neat, not needed).

Guy at my last job would not speak if the Zoom was making an AI summary. He’d tell everyone up front, turn his camera off and go mute.

Show. Me. The. Spreadsheets.

She’s a real one. That is how you do philanthropy. You don’t splat it all out at once. You won’t have money to make money and continue giving.

Yield Giving uses “quiet research” to identify the non-profits “working to advance the opportunities of people in underserved communities,”

The grants have “no strings attached and few reporting requirements,”

My old bosses used to be top givers to Independence for the Blind, received tickets to the formal ball at the beach Hilton. (I strapped on a tux and went every year!) They never once showed up, never took a bow. Family was Southern Baptists who believed in Jesus’ teaching to give and STFU about it. Also believed in the bit about preachers on corners being fucking hypocrites.

I’m an atheist, but I’m in awe of Christians who walk the walk without talking the talk. In my 5-years at that family company, no one asked me what my religion was or asked me to church. LOL, they were conservatives but one of the only times we talked politics the VP exploded with Bush Jr. hate. Can’t even imagine what they think of Trump.

You either didn’t read the article or didn’t understand it.

Curious what and how you’re prompting. I get solid results, but I’m only asking for hard facts, nothing that could have opinion or agenda inserted. Also, I never go past the first prompt. There be dragons that way.

Wikipedia was not then what it is now. You’re spot on with all that, spot on, but in the early days it wasn’t nearly as trustworthy.

Show me. That’s a simple request.

200 weapons! Ah!

200 mall ninja weapons. And if you have that many sorts of weapons, you’re not proficient with any of them.

And that “assault rifle” is a joke. Wish they had finished it. At least one of them would have his hands or face blown off.

All countries are interdependent. Chucklefucks like Trump and his “'Merica fuck yeah!” base honestly think America can do everything in-house. I mean, we could do loads more, but not all, and you can hardly spin up a 100 disparate manufacturing systems any time soon.

One might argue we pulled quite the trick spinning up for WWII, but it was a much simpler world. War materiel was far more basic and “What are rare earths?”

Your skill doesn’t translate into supply chain management, testing timelines, manufacturing setups, all that. Dad was a civil engineer. Didn’t mean he could run a road laying company.

Shit. Forgot where I was. My post is sucking Elon’s dick and excusing Tesla for fuck ups.

FFS, the issues I’m citing are in the article and they’re not quotes from Tesla. Lay off the fucking witch hunt.

If jihadi’s had proper infrastructure they’d use it!

Saw my bf from high school, wearing his glasses for the first time in years. He was in the field (Army) in Honduras, wearing contacts, big no no at the time. Alarm went off and they bailed behind sandbags. A round hit and sprayed his eyeball down with sand.

“Thought Bush (Sr.) said we’re not in Honduras.”

“We’re not.”